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Webcomic: Newton The Newt

A webcomic created by Newton The Newt. Frog endures his friend Newton's crazy sense of humor and awful puns. Wise Old Bullfrog, a self-proclaimed philosopher, and Angry Betta, a bitter Siamese fighting fish support the strip as recurring characters.

The first season introduces these four characters and develops them, for lack of a better word. There's no storyline; it's a Gag Per Day comic.

Read it at deviantArt

or at ComicDish

. The deviantArt page includes a blog

with occasional humor entries, which are a heckuva lot better than this article.

This series provides examples of:

Butt Monkey. Turtleye, out of canon.
Catchphrase. Wise Old Bullfrog: "Indeed!"
Cloudcuckoolander. Newton.
Drill Sergeant Nasty.
- Angry Betta, the fighting fish.
- Especially in this strip.
Glasses Pull. "Classified ads".
Gone Horribly Wrong. The Macbeth one.
Incredibly Lame Pun. Oh, so many. Usually made by Newton.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All. Wise Old Bullfrog.
Negative Continuity.
- Newton fails high school science in one strip and is lecturing a class in another.
- Also, Bullfrog flips between taking college classes and applying to teach college classes.
Private Detective/Amateur Sleuth. Turtleye, complete with fedora and longcoat.
Rule of Funny: In particular, Water Is Air. There is only one strip in which it matters whether the characters are underwater or not.
Straight Man.
- Frog.
- At the moment he's also the Only Sane Man.
Shout Out.
- To David Lynch's Angriest Dog In the World.
- One strip has a fish with muscular arms as a reference to TROOOOGGGDOOOR!!
- Maxell logo.
- Oliver Twist and Tom Lehrer in one strip? You might think the author had read the book, but he hasn't.
White Gloves. Frog and Newton always wear white gloves.